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After THE END: Teaching and Learning Creative Revision

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This book has helped me change the focus of my classroom. Lane agrues persuasively that writing IS revision, and provides techniques and examples of how to help students realize the creative possibilities of revision. Any teacher of writing will find good ideas, but he concentrates on 5-9th grade writers. A good companion to Atwell's IN THE MIDDLE.

Tired of trying to browbeat your students into revising their writing? Afraid you might scream if you have to slog through The Writing Process one more time? Try this welcome antedote. Humorously written but based on sound theory, Mr. Lane's book is chock-full of exercises that are fun, practical, easy to modify, and based on classroom experience. I've used them with third and fourth graders, high school students, and even teachers!
The book's first chapter, "Good Writing is Good Questions," is reason enough to buy the book. When we (or our students)
respond to a student's writing with questions about what we want to know more about, revision happens naturally.
"A large part of writing is simply trusting your own instincts and asking questions that will help you dig deep enough," Mr. Lane writes. Dig deep into this book. There's gold here.

I saw this book reviewed here on Amazon. I then went to the public library to review one of his other books. I liked what I saw. Then I bought this book based on the previous reviews and I'm very glad I did. It's definitely worth a 5 out of 5!

This book hits the sweet spot of what I'm trying to accomplish as a tutor to some junior high school students. Barry Lane's exercises and theories fit what I've learned so far in this fun, and sometimes hilarious, quest.

The book is easy to read, yet loaded with useful advice. Now that I've finished this book, I'll be getting his other books and most importantly: I'll be starting to implement his recommendations on teaching writing to children.

The author is a writing in instructor in New Hampshire/Vermont. The book has a useful bibliography and he often comments on important books throughout his chapters.

John Dunbar
Sugar Land, TX

As a first year teacher, my mentor loaned her copy of _After the End_ to me. I have found this book to be a true blessing!! I have already used several techniques Barry Lane created himself! His writing is clever, witty, and honest. His insight is based upon his own research in the classroom. I am not afraid to teach writing; I embrace it now.

For so long, I have found revision difficult to teach for primary students. This book is a wealth of information. The vignettes given as examples are entertaining and are the basis for numerous mini-lessons to guide students through revision painlessly and effectively. This book will remain on my desk throughout the year. I highly recommend it.

Barry Lane has written such an incredible book that I can't praise it highly enough. I use so many ideas from this book and my students were so jazzed about writing, I can't imagine what my writing program would have been without it. This is what writing instruction is all about!

If you've read Nancie Atwell's second edition of In the Middle, you're ready to incorporate Barry Lane's ideas into your language arts program. After THE END is filled with practical ideas for getting your students to revise their own writing.You might even find something to help you with your own writing.

Mr. Lane's book should be required reading for anyone who teaches writing. Before I read this book, I found teaching students to revise their work an insurmountable challenge. I found that using the ideas in the book empowered the students, and they began taking charge with their writing. Mr. Lane shares his ideas with an infectious and enthusaistic vigor that motivated me to take more chances in my classroom. This resulted in students taking more creative chances in their writing.

Thank you, Mr. Lane. I'm glad you wrote this fantabulous book.

Mr. Lane's book is packed full of ideas for those who wish to find a way to make writing (especially revision) fun for students. The book addresses everything from voice and tone to conferencing and questioning in an effort to make writing truly a student's own (not just what a teacher wants). I find it to be an excellant resource as a new teacher.

This book was recommended to me by my cooperating teacher during my student teaching. I used it for many creative lessons that got kids started on writing (even middle schoolers) really creative stuff-- sometimes just using a dirty legwarmer as a starting point. It made lesson planning exciting and took away time intensive work involved with doing your own original lessons everyday. I'm so excited to use this often in whatever subject I teach!